d o u b l e a c t s began when other people started to ask us to explain our collaborative practice - to explain how we work together and why, about who does what and who comes up with all the ideas, about what we disagree on, about what makes us argue and whether or not we are lovers.
These are questions that don’t have simple answers.
We can’t get double acts out of our heads. We started making a list of other double acts to try and make sense of our own collaborative practice for others. We have set ourselves the task of writing to every double act on our list. We’re not quite sure where this quest will lead us.
Feb 2003. We are sitting, chatting, waiting to see the next performance, talking about ideas for a performance that we could make, together. We don’t know it yet, but this is the start of a long term partnership. It all started by accident – we never planned for this to happen.
Hints of this relationship have appeared in much of our work to date…
Two suggests a competitive element, or at least a game. Two suggests conversation, talking and dialogue.
Two suggests comfort, safety, or at least having someone else there.
during the process of making this project we have been:
writing letters to other double acts; phoning gilbert and george; running a three legged race; playing a guessing game called ‘who am I’; telling stories; blowing up an inflatable double bed; remembering all the things we have done together; trying to work out why we do what we do, together; scared about something happening to one of us; hoping it will all make sense.
Download<< watch a video excerpt from ‘d o u b l e a c t s’
(LOW PROFILE telephone Gilbert & George)
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Download<< watch a video excerpt from ‘d o u b l e a c t s’
(LOW PROFILE play the “Who Am I” guessing game)
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‘Low Profile presents: d o u b l e a c t s” is a Phoenix Scratch commission, supported by Arts Council England, Exeter Phoenix, 2006